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BKR3c Linald Long Jr. Collier
He was a baker and petty officer third class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Mr. Collier was born Nov. 22, 1916, in Galveston, Texas, to Linald L. Collier, an English immigrant and longshoreman, and Alma Long Collier, a homemaker.
He attended school at La Marque, and news accounts in 1933 and 1934 named him as one of the top-scoring ninth-grade students both years. He joined the Army, serving three years as a cook and baker at Fort Crockett in Galveston. He was discharged on July 10, 1938 and on Nov. 14 enlisted in the Navy.
Mr. Collier was a member of First Baptist Church in Galveston.
Sailors have a tradition of sporting tattoos, and Mr. Collier had many, including a sailor girl, two birds, an eagle, tiger’s head, Red Cross nurse, and the words “mother” and “Rose of no man’s land.”
His younger brother Thad served in the Army Air Corps during the war.